I'm having trouble remembering a PC game that I played (it was a demo IIRC) around the time Ra2 came out (In 2000. ) It was a Rome or Greek empire building game that had graineries, Fire and Police departments, theaters, aqueducts, temples to the numerous mythological deities, isometric view (IIRC), roads, markets, etc.

This first demo level was a roadside market/town was burning and you had to use the fire department (a tent >_>) to put it out. The second level lets you expand your village inside a mountain clearing.

30 kel to those who point me in the right direction. _________________“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”

Ceasar 3 ?
does fit your description, and i think its from around 1998-2000 to.. so might be the game your looking for._________________"The death of a lover, the anger of a lord, a wish for peace...""As each of these thoughts is kept to itself, fate begins to move.""With every second, the war draws nearer."